Reflect
on a recent discussion you've had in which you tried to persuade
others to accept your point of view. What types of reasoning did you
use? How well did your reasoning work?
Recently I have had discussion on the topic how cartoons effect
children and my relatives wanted to impose me their point of view.
I have a firm position in this issues and I think I have used causal
reasoning. I tries to use the causal reasoning in four ways: to
explain why something happened, to identify who's responsible for
something, to determine whether people can control an event, and to
predict what might occur in the future. In all of these cases, I
wanted to show the cause of something. We have argued that one action
or event resulted in another. For example in the cartoon "Monsters
vs. Aliens children see funny captivated images of the
characters but at night time in the dream they can cry because they
can see these cartoon's image. We don't know how it works but our
subconscious folds everything and after this we have different phobias.
We can predict a future of these children. If they watch crucial or
stupid cartoons without any sense they it can effect their view of
life or make an influence on their character.
When I use causal reasoning, I think carefully about what the true
causes of an event or action are. For example, does violence in
cartoons cause children to disobey their parents? I'm not sure how
well my reasoning worked because we are left with our opinions but I
wasn't satisfied. I know that I can not prove anything but I feel
like I was right. I think the time will show us who was right.
Casual reasoning seems like a very weak way to argue something. It sounds like it is an observation study being done, without necessary using the scientific approach. It also seems to be only doing a handful of studies instead of many. This would result in deriving fact or fact like evidence from inconclusive findings. Even if majority of the time these findings were found to be correct, it would still be an easy target. You could persuade your audience a different route, just by saying you had different casual evidence or that your opponents evidence was insufficient.
ReplyDeleteI believe if you researched it more, you can find plenty of sources to prove that cartoons and media leads to violence. It has been taken into consideration and recognized now as a problem children are facing. There are plenty of studies linking violence to video games, movies, cartoons, commercials, etc. It would take some time by digging through articles, journals, online, and maybe some personal experience stories from parents. Opinions alone will do you no justice, but thorough research will add to it. Casual reasoning to me isn’t weak, but depends on the topic and how well you come up with it.
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